Popular Mathematics

At first glance, the concept of equality in maths seems unambiguous. When we see the equality sign, we think of 'solving for x' or balancing two si...

Can one prove that 1 + 1 = 2? How long is the coastline of Britain? Which US president proved Pythagoras' theorem on right-angled triangles? Who or...

Leonard Mlodinow's The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives is an exhilarating, eye-opening guide to understanding our random world.Rand...

The definitive guide to mathematical problem solving, from one of the great teachers of the twentieth centuryGeorge Pólya's perennial bestseller ha...

In China, lots of excellent maths students takes an active part in various maths contests and the best six senior high school students will be sele...

In China, lots of excellent maths students takes an active part in various maths contests and the best six senior high school students will be sele...

'Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the str...

Mathematicians solve equations, or try to. But sometimes the solutions are not as interesting as the beautiful symmetric patterns that lead to them...

Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of Physics World, including - accessibly described here ...

The main purpose of this captivating book is to help instructors in popularizing mathematics and other subjects by considering them in a unique mul...

The book goes through middle school mathematics and techniques and methods of its teaching. It is meant to aid parents who wish to be involved in t...

The main purpose of this captivating book is to help instructors in popularizing mathematics and other subjects by considering them in a unique mul...

Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time — or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lif...

Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time — or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lif...

Ian Stewart explores the astonishing properties of numbers from 1 to10 to zero and infinity, including one figure that, if you wrote it out, would ...

From Newton's Law of Gravity to the Black-Scholes model used by bankers to predict the markets, equations, are everywhere -- and they are fundame...

A new partnership of biologists and mathematicians is picking apart the hidden complexity of animals and plants to throw fresh light on the behavio...

This is a mathematics book written specifically for the enjoyment of non-mathematicians and those who “hated math in school.” The book is organized...

This is a mathematics book written specifically for the enjoyment of non-mathematicians and those who “hated math in school.” The book is organized...

GOD CREATED THE INTEGERS is Stephen Hawking's personal choice of the greatest mathematical works in history. He allows the reader to peer into the ...

Humanity's love affair with mathematics and mysticism reached a critical juncture, legend has it, on the back of a turtle in ancient China. As Clif...